Album.



No. 792,904. PATENTED JUNE '20, 1905. J. B. KING.

ALBUM.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.28.1905.

F-ln.- y c' 19 M- l By m I v Afrox/Vers UNITED STATES Patented June 20, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES BERNARD KING, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,904, dated June 20, 1905. Application filed January 28, 1905. Serial No. 243,062.

'o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JAMES BERNARD KING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Salt Lake City, in the countyT of Salt Lake and State or' Utah, have invented a new and vImproved Album, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a novel construction of album adapted for use as a stamp, photographic, or scenic album-a calendar or an album wherein anything in the nature of a picture, character, or figure may be placed by printing or mounting upon a tape material to be displayed.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide carrying-rolls for the tape and an intermediate guide over which the tape is tightly drawn in its passage from one roll to the other.

A further purpose of the invention is to provide means for eXteriorly operating either of the rolls and for viewing the picturesfor example, through a transparent panel-so that the tape and views or objects carried thereby will always be protected while in use, and also to provide means for conveniently shift' ing the tape and its supporting apparatus.

A further purpose of the invention is to provide a construction of album of the character described which may be made so compact that it can be conveniently carried in the pocket.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination o't' the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the device, the cover for the transparent panel being open. Fig. 2 is asection through the box-body, taken on a line parallel with the aXes of the rollers, the tape having been removed and one of the rollers being broken away. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section, taken substantially on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section, taken practically on the line t A of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional View vided with a transparent pane 14, through A which the contents of the box-body may be viewed. The box-body is provided at its bottom portion with a skeleton frame B, (shown best in Fig. 6,) comprising horizontal arms 15 and connecting-bars 16. Two rollers 17 and 18 are located in the said frame B parallel with each other, being arranged at a distance apart, and the trunnions 17L and 18 of these two rollers are journaled in the connecting-bars 16 of the frame, as is shown in Figs. l and 2.

A gear 19 is secured to the trunnion 17L of the roller 17, and another gear 2O is secured to the corresponding roller 18, as is shown in Fig. 1. These two gears are in parallel planes, being so placed that either one may be made to mesh with a pinion 21, carried at the inner end of a stem 22, which stem is mounted to turn and to have sliding movement in the box-body, and the connecting-bar 16 of the skeleton frame B nearest the stem 22 is provided with a notch 23 for its reception. The location of the pinion 21 is between the gears 19 and 20, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Thus it will be observed that when the bottom 10 of the box-body A is opened the frame B and parts carried thereby may be dropped from the box-body.

The ends ot' a tape 24 may be secured to the rollers 17 and 18, as is best shown in Fig. 4, and this tape is carried up over the smooth outer face of an arched guide-plate 25, and said plate, which is made of thin material and is of any suitable length, occupies a position above the rollers 17 and 18 and close below the transparent pane 111 when the cover 12 is closed, being held in such position by a spring 26. rIhe lower end of the spring 26 is inserted in a pocket 26a at one end of the main frame A, as is shown in Fig. 4, and the said spring is carried inward and upward over the central portion of the frame B and is {irmly secured at its upper end to the central under surface of the arched guide-plate 25, as is best shown in Fig. 4. The side edges of the arched guide-plate which are over the rollers 17 and 18 are suiiiciently cut away to accommodate the trunnions of guide-rollers 27, which serve to lessen the friction on the tape and facilitate its movement.

Each roller17 and 18 is provided with a brake C, and this brake is illustrated in detail in Eig. 5 and as applied in Eig. 1. Each brake is made in two sections 28 and 29, and the outer section is preferably screwed into the inner section. The inner section 23 is provided with a segmental shoe 30, which has bearing against the outer side face of a trunnion carrying a gear, and the outer end portion of the outer section 29 is made polygonal in cross-section and is passed through a correspondingly-shaped opening 31 in the side of the box-body A, which openingl leads into a chamber 32, formed in the said box-body, as is shown in Fig. 5, and a spring 33 is coiled around the polygonal portion of the brakestem, the spring being located within the chamber 32 and held in position by a head 311, formed upon the outer end of the brake-stem. Thus the brake-stem is held from turning, but is capable of end movement. The spring 32 normally acts to hold the brake-shoe 30 out of engagement with the trunnion upon which it is adapted to act, and the brake can be applied more or less forcibly by pushing the brake-stem inward. These brakes are adapted to more or less check the rotation of the gears, and thus cause the tape in winding from one roller to the other to exert more or less downward tension on the guide-plate 25, thereby bringing' the said guide-plate out otl possible engagement with the transparent pane, and likewise the picture or object carried by the tape, so that in the movement of the tape the pictures or objects carried thereby will not become scratched.

The pictures, objects, or material to be displayed are secured to the outer face of the tape 24C in any suitable or approved manner, and the tape is carried .from one windingroller to the other, as may be required, by

bringing the pinion 21 into engagement with the appropriate gear 19 or 20.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In an album, a receptacle having a transparent panel at its top and a removable bottom, and a skeleton tray removably located in said receptacle and normally resting on said bottom, an arched support below the panel provided with guide-rollers at its ends, a supporting-spring for the arched support, carried by the receptacle, winding-rollers below the roller ends of the said arched support, which winding-rollers are journaled in the said tray, a tape passed over said arched support, having its ends secured to the said winding-rollers, gears secured to corresponding trunnions of the winding-rollers, said gears being in parallel planes, a shifting stem mounted in the receptacle, and a pinion carried by said stem, located within the receptacle and adapted to be brought in mesh with either of the said gears.

2. In an album, a receptacle having atransparent panel at its top and a removable bottom, and a skeleton tray removablylocated in said receptacle and normally resting on said bottom, an arched support below the panel provided with guide-rollers at its ends, a supporting-spring for the arched support, carried by the receptacle, winding-rollers below the roller ends of the said arched support, which winding-rollers are journaled in the said tray, a tape passed over said arched support, having its ends secured to the said winding-rollers, gears secured to corresponding trunnions of the winding-rollers, said gears being in parallel planes, a shifting stem mounted in the receptacle and adapted to be brought in mesh with either of the said gears, and brake-rods operated from the outside of the receptacle, which brake-rods are provided with shoes at their inner ends, arranged to be brought in engagement with the trunnions of the winding-rollers on which the gears are mounted, for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES BERNARD KING.

Witnesses:

CHARLES F. BELLEMEN, ELMER E. DARLING.

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